Machine foe paring



UNiiTED STATES VPATENT OFFICE.l

B. F. JOSLYN, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE' FOR PARING- APPLES.

Specication'of Letters Patent No. 16,843, dated March 17, 1857.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, B. F. JosLYN, oflvorcester, in the county of Vorcester and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and Improved ImplementI or Device for Paring Apples; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is an end viewof my improvement. Fig. 2, is a side view of ditto. Fig. 3, is a plan ortop view of ditto.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

This invention consists in the employment or use of stationary orrot-ating spurs attached to the knife rod and placed relatively in anoblique position, and in the employment or use of a sliding mandrel, theparts being so arranged that the spurs by the rotation of the apple willfeed the apple to the cutter and cause the apple to be pared in aperfect manner.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents a base on which two uprights B, B, are placed andC,`represents a mandrel which is fitted in the upper part of saiduprights, the mandrel being allowed to slide freely in the upper partsof the uprights. On one end of the mandrel C, a fork I), is placed and acrank E, is attached to the opposite end.

F, represents a small shaft which is fitted between bearings or ledgesa, a, attached to the base A. This shaft may work on center points. Theshaft F, has a socket b, formed on it to receive a rod G, and a stop c,is also formed on, or attached to the shaft F, said stop c, being keptpressed against an upright ledge d, attached to the base A, by a spiralspring H, which is placed on the shaft F the spiral spring H, keepingthe rod G, in a vertical position, when said rod is not acted upon byany extraneous force or power.

To t-he upper end of the rod G, a cutter I, is attached. This cutter isformed of a steel plate or strip bent so as to form a curved or roundedfront and this plate or strip is placed directly over the upper edge ofa head J, which is also attached to the upper end of the rod G, the headJ, serving as a gage to regulate the thickness of the Aparing. To theupper part of the rod G, and just below the head J, a frame K, isattached. This frame projects outward from the rod G, behind the cutterI, and has two guides c, e, attached to each side, in which guides rodsf, are placed. The outer ends of the rods f, are connected by a bar orplate g, one end of which is pivoted to the end of one of the rods, asshown at z., and the opposite end of the bar or plate is slotted, a pini, in the opposite rod fitting in the slot, see Fig. 3. On each rod f,and between its two guides c, a spiral spring L, is placed. The innerends of the rods f, are slotted longitudinally for a short distance, andin each slot a small wheel j, is fitted. These wheels are notched sothat their peripheries are serrated like a saw, and the wheels areplaced obliquely in the rods, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, the slots inthe rods being made oblique or inclined.

The apples are placed, one at a time, on the fork I), and the cutter I,is pressed against the apple by the spring H. The knife is first placedagainst the outer end or part of the apple and the nearer wheel j, ismade to ,penetrate the apple a short distance by means of the spring L,on its rod f. A rotating movementis then given the mandrel C, and as theapple rotates it is pared by the cutter I, the apple being fed along tothe cutter by the wheels j, which, being placed in an oblique positionwithI the axis of the apple, give the feed motion to the apple, themandrel sliding in its bearings. The two wheels are used so that whenone passes off the apple at its end the other will remain in contactwith it. It is not essen- I tial that the spurs or wheels y', bearranged precisely as herein shown; stationary ones may be employed butit is important t-hat they be inclined or placed obliquely with theapple in order to give the proper feed motion thereto.

By the above improvement a very simple and efficient implement isobtained. The usual machines are provided with gearing arranged so as tomove the cutter from one end of the apple to the other. By dispensingwith this feed gear, the implement is much simplified and may beconstructed at a comparatively small cost. The implement is also lessliable to get out of repair than those hitherto used, and it workssmoothly and its working parts are not, as in the usual machines,subjected to the jarring caused by the return motion of the cutter,which is or its axis of rotation, When said spurs are 10 thrown back bya spring at the end of each used in connection with a sliding mandrelfeed movement of the cutter. C, substantially as herein shown and de-Having thus described my invention, scribed, for the purpose of feedingthe apple 5 What I claim as new and desire to secure by to the Cutter,as set forth.

Letters Patent, is: B. F. JOSLYN.

The spurs y', either rotating or stationary, Vitnesses: attached orconnected to the cutter rod and JAMES F. BUCKLEY7 placed obliquely orangularly With the apple f J. W. COOMB.

